Discontentment trumps Euphoria
- Autor(en)
- Tobias Heidenreich, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Fabienne Lind, Hajo Boomgaarden
- Abstrakt
We investigate user engagement with politicians’ migration discourses on social media. In particular, we study the effects of message framing and support base attitudes on interactions on Facebook and Twitter in five European countries. Enriching automated analysis of social media content with survey data in a multilevel negative binomial regression approach, findings show that migration-related messages tend to elicit more interactions than other kinds of messages. Furthermore, the presence of a security frame in a migration-related message positively relates to user engagement. However, additional analyses suggest that the relevance of these frames differ between different political parties. In fact, a message gets an even higher number of interactions, when the dimension of the migration issue included in those framed messages is perceived more negatively by a party’s support base. The findings have important implications for communication strategies of political actors and the state of migration discourses on social media.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
- Journal
- New Media & Society
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 22
- ISSN
- 1461-4448
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177%2F14614448221074648
- Publikationsdatum
- 02-2022
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft, 508014 Publizistik
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/discontentment-trumps-euphoria(f555265b-1158-453e-808e-f8fdee3b8182).html